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Academic Journal of Humanities & Social Sciences, 2021, 4(4); doi: 10.25236/AJHSS.2021.040414.

Poetic Association: Conceptual Blending in In a Station of the Metro

Author(s)

Chen Yang

Corresponding Author:
Chen Yang
Affiliation(s)

Foreign Studies College, Hunan Normal University, Changsha, 410081, China

Abstract

Image is one of the most important elements for poetry and general literature. This thesis is trying to analyze Ezra Pond’s in a Station of the Metro to take an insight to the mental process of reading the text and gaining the mental image, and it’s trying to reveal that how the emotion is conveyed from the poet to the readers in the view of cognitive linguistics.

Keywords

conceptual integration; poetry images; metaphor; mental space

Cite This Paper

Chen Yang. Poetic Association: Conceptual Blending in In a Station of the Metro. Academic Journal of Humanities & Social Sciences (2021) Vol. 4, Issue 4: 61-66. https://doi.org/10.25236/AJHSS.2021.040414.

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